The Potbelly Sandwich Shop on Charles and Biddle streets that passersbys have been gaping at is opening Tuesday. Potbelly, which promotes itself as a "mealtime hangout spot," has existing Baltimore locations in the Inner Harbor and Downtown West as well ones in Towson, Annapolis and Hanover. The Midtown-Belvedere store is at 1201 N. Charles St. It will be open Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. For information call 443-278-8752 or go to potbelly.com And on March 26, another Potbelly will open in Charles Village , on the corner of St. Paul and Biddle streets.

William N. Gill Sr., founder of the Village Sub Shop chain that had numerous sites in the city and Baltimore County and later included the Steak & Rib Restaurant, died Saturday of a heart attack at his Lutherville home. He was 82. William Norton Gill Sr., who was born and raised in the former 10th Ward in Baltimore, graduated in 1950 from Mount St. Joseph High School in Irvington. He later worked for the old State Roads Commission and was a frozen food salesman. While sitting in a shopping center one day, Mr. Gill realized it would be the perfect location for a pizza shop.

Louis Dominic "Iggy" Patti, founder of a popular Little Italy sandwich shop, died of lung cancer Monday at his Fallston home. He was 87. Born and raised in Little Italy, he attended St. Leo Parochial School and was a 1932 graduate of Calvert Hall College High School. In 1934, he founded the Kings' Nightclub on Gough Street, a business that lasted one year. He then opened Sandwich Kings at Eastern Avenue and High Street, now operated under the name Iggy's Sandwich Kings by his three daughters, M. Suzanne Black of Perry Hall, and Nanette M. Majestic and Toni A. Newcity, both of Fallston.

The Potbelly Sandwich Shop on Charles and Biddle streets that passersbys have been gaping at is opening Tuesday. Potbelly, which promotes itself as a "mealtime hangout spot," has existing Baltimore locations in the Inner Harbor and Downtown West as well ones in Towson, Annapolis and Hanover. The Midtown-Belvedere store is at 1201 N. Charles St. It will be open Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. For information call 443-278-8752 or go to potbelly.com And on March 26, another Potbelly will open in Charles Village , on the corner of St. Paul and Biddle streets.

Two men, one armed with a sawed-off shotgun, robbed a Brooklyn Park sandwich shop Friday.Police said the pair entered the store in the 5900 block of Ritchie Highway at about 7:22 p.m. and demanded money.One of the robbers jumped over the counter and took money out of the register. The other ordered the customers to hand over their cash.Police described the first robber as a black man in his late teens wearing a dark blue hat and jacket.The second robber is described as a black man in his late teens and wearing a red coat.

A Jessup sandwich shop was robbed Wednesday by two men, one of whom said he had a gun in his pocket, Howard County police said.The Subway in the 8600 block of Washington Blvd. was robbed after two men entered the shop and approached a clerk at 10:10 p.m. One of the men, his hand in a right pocket, ordered the clerk to open the rear employee door and to turn over all the money in the store, police said.When the worker followed the robber's instructions, the men ran from the store with an undisclosed amount of cash, police said.

Three men snatched more than $100 from the cash register at a Severna Park sandwich shop Sunday evening, county police said.The men entered the Subway shop in the 500 block of Ritchie Highway about 6:45 p.m. and ordered a soft drink and a sandwich. While the clerk had the register open, one of the men leaned over the counter and grabbed a fistful of cash, police said.The men escaped out the back door and headed south on Baltimore-Annapolis Boulevard.The suspects were described as black males 17 to 25 years old with medium builds.

A gunman robbed an Ellicott City sandwich shop Sunday, fleeing with an undisclosed amount of money, Howard County police said.The 17-year-old clerk from Glenelg was not injured in the 8 p.m. robbery of the Subway in the 9200 block of U.S. 40, police said.According to police, the robber showed the clerk a revolver, ordered him to get cash from the register, then to lie on the floor. The robber then fled, police said.He was described as a slim, 5-foot-7-inch black man, 25 to 30 years old, with a gold front tooth.

Two men robbed a Jessup sandwich shop in Columbia Junction Plaza on Sunday by convincing the clerk that one of them had a gun in his sweat shirt, police said.About 10:30 p.m., two men entered the Subway in the 8600 block of U.S. 1, approached the register and demanded money, police said.One of the men showed a bulge in his sweat shirt to imply he was armed, but neither of the men ever displayed a weapon, police said.An employee turned over $79 to the robbers, who then ran from the store, police said.

Two people were killed and four others were hurt, including an 8-year-old boy, in unrelated shootings yesterday in the city, Baltimore police said.One of the slaying victims was identified as Jason Smith, 27, who was discovered lying face down in his home in the 2000 block of Annapolis Road at 3: 57 a.m.The other victim is an unidentified African-American male who was found dead of a gunshot wound to his head on the steps of a house on the 1000 block of...

Don't look for the Roland Park Bakery & Deli in Roland Park. The combination bakery and counter shop is in Hampden now and doing well, where it appears to have filled a niche between the fancy fare of the neighborhood's new spots and the slapdash grub you can still find at the old haunts. A longtime fixture of Roland Park life, Anita Ward's combination bakery and sandwich shop reopened last year on Chestnut Street after 27 years in the Roland Park Shopping Center. The move wasn't entirely voluntary.

The dish: turkey and cheddar wrap The popular Charles Street mainstay, David and Dad's, has opened a cafe inside the Enoch Pratt Free Library 's Southeast Anchor branch in Highlandtown. The Highlandtown location has nothing like the full menu at the restaurant's 334 N. Charles St. digs or the Express shop at 1 N. Charles St. The library location is stocked with meals prepared at the parent shop and really feels more like what it's meant to be: a quick-stop coffee shop.

If you're a fan of big chain sub shops, you've probably got your favorite brand, one or more favorite sandwiches and your own peculiar combination of add-ons — like extra cheese, more olives, or three fistfuls of pickles. After that, there's not a whole heck of a lot to say about the franchises, because if you're inclined to visit, you've very likely checked them out already. And have, moreover, made up your mind. But the Subway at 706 Reisterstown Road in Pikesville offers specials you won't see in most other locations.

If the first three pillars of restaurant success are location, next up would be the kitchen, with service following in short order. If the location happens to be The Block — Baltimore's notorious XXX district — the choice of a name might take on special significance, too. Crazy John's is nestled between a strip club called Lust and a chicken place that sells liquor. It's a gaudy, bustling, short-order haunt popular among city employees who dress up for work and those whose work involves undressing.

Dr. Jerome "Jerry" Gaber, a retired Govans general practitioner who during his more than 50-year career personified the old-time family physician, died Tuesday of complications from dementia at Atrium Village in Owings Mills. The Govans resident was 88. Dr. Gaber, the son of a Romanian tool and die maker and a Lithuanian mother who owned and operated a sandwich shop, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and moved with his family in the early 1920s to a home on West Pratt Street. After graduating in 1940 from City College, he attended the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, graduating in 1944, and then served in the Navy for several years.

The website listed the address as 300 E. Lombard St., and sure enough, when we arrived, a prominent sign assured us we had landed at those very coordinates. But there was no sign, literally or figuratively, of Rosina Gourmet. Pluckily, we entered the office building that didn't look anything like a gourmet sandwich shop. If ever a place resembled an office lobby and not a restaurant, this is tit. In fact it looks exactly like the Alex Brown Realty Inc. office building it purports to be and not a sandwich shop at all. After a moment of complete disorientation we asked a kind receptionist what happened to the restaurant.

Anne Arundel County police are investigating the death of a woman who was killed inside a sandwich shop near Annapolis early yesterday. Mary Ella Ginger, 51, of Edgewater was found dead about 1 a.m. in the back room of the Subway restaurant in the Festival at Riva shopping center in the 2300 block of Forest Drive. Police said she had been assaulted, but they have not determined the cause of death and are not certain whether robbery was a motive. The case is being investigated as a homicide.

Pasadena man robbed outside sandwich shopA 23-year-old Pasadena man was robbed early yesterday while using a phone outside a sandwich shop near Curtis Bay, Anne Arundel County police said.Police said two men accosted the man near Sandy's Subs and Stuff, in the 7300 block of Fort Smallwood Road, about 3:30 a.m. and fled with an undisclosed amount of money.No weapons were used during the robbery and the man was not injured, police said.